Transcript The library as a virtual research environment

Halfway up the
Open Access Mountain
- the Sherpa's view
Bill Hubbard
SHERPA Manager
University of Nottingham
The start of the journey . . .
 Open Access
 Budapest Open Access Initiative
 “An old tradition and a new technology have
converged to make possible an unprecedented public
good . . .”
– http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml
 Lofty principals - can we climb this far?
Why? Because its there?
 Open access benefits
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for authors
for researchers
for research processes
for institutions
for research funders
for public
 Offers a sustainable basis for the future
 Some people have gone there and seen it working
The Open Access landscape
 Open Access - definitions
– Open Access Journals
– Open Access Repositories
 Data Providers and Service Providers
– Global repository network to underpin adoption
– Author-led and innovative services to support use
 Stakeholders
– authors, researchers, institutions, funders, learned societies,
public, publishers . . .
The route
The route: institutional repositories
 The OAI-PMH allows a single gateway to search and
access many repositories
– subject-based portals or views
– subject-based classification and search
– institutional storage and support
 Practical reasons
– use institutional infrastructure
– integration into work-flows and systems
– support is close to academic users and contributors
Repository content
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Preprints
Postprints
Datasets
Learning objects
Videos
Sound files
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 linkage between these objects
Theses
Dissertations
Royalty publications
Conference papers
Technical reports
Grey literature
Repository use
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Access to material
Citation analysis
Overlay journals
Review projects
Evidence based work
Data-mining
Cross-institutional research
group virtual research
environments
 . . . Services built on top
 RAE-like submissions,
activities and
management
 Archival storage
 “Shop-windows”
 Facilitate industrial links
 Career-long personalised
work spaces
Where we have gone so far
 JISC FAIR programme, and others . . .
 GNU eprints, SHERPA, TARDIS, DAEDALUS, EThOS,
VERSIONS, Repository Bridge, DRIVER, et al
 Overseas and international initiatives
 Advocacy and engagement
 Policy development
 Growth of OA Community
 Conferences galore!
Repository Types
Repositories by Continent
European Repositories
Russell & 1994 Groups
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University of Bath
Birkbeck
University of Birmingham
University of Bristol
University of Cambridge
Cardiff University
University of Durham
University of East Anglia
University of Edinburgh
University of Essex
University of Exeter
University of Glasgow
Goldsmiths
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Imperial College
King's College London
Lancaster University
University of Leeds
University of Leicester
University of Liverpool
Loughborough University
LSE
University of Manchester
University of Newcastle
University of Nottingham
University of Oxford
Queen Mary
Queen’s University
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University of Reading
Royal Holloway
University of St Andrews
University of Sheffield
SOAS
University of Southampton
University of Surrey
University of Sussex
University of Warwick
UCL
University of York
CMU Universities Group
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University of Abertay Dundee
Anglia Ruskin University
Bath Spa University
University of Bedfordshire
The University of Bolton
University of Central England
University of Central Lancashire
Coventry University
University of Derby
University of East London (UEL)
University of Glamorgan
Glasgow Caledonian University
University of Gloucestershire
University of Greenwich
Kingston University
Leeds Metropolitan University
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London Metropolitan University
London South Bank University
Middlesex University
Napier University
University of Northampton
University of Paisley
Roehampton University
Southampton Solent University
Staffordshire University
University of Sunderland
University of Teesside
Thames Valley University
University of Wales Institute, Cardiff
University of Westminster
University of Wolverhampton
University Alliance
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University of Bournemouth
University of Bradford
Cranfield University
De Montfort University
University of Hertfordshire
University of Huddersfield
Institute of Education
University of Kent
University of Lincoln
Liverpool John Moores University
Manchester Metropolitan University
University of Northumbria
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Nottingham Trent University
The Open University
Oxford Brookes University
University of Plymouth
University of Portsmouth
University of Salford
Sheffield Hallam University
University of Wales, Aberystwyth
University of Wales Institute, Cardiff
University of Wales, Newport
University of the West of England
Joining the party
 Institutional mandates
 Funding mandates
– RCUK
– Wellcome Trust
– Arthritis Research Campaign and more
 Parliamentary Select Committee Report
 European Commission
– 'Study on the Economic and Technical Evolution of the
Scientific Publication Markets of Europe‘
– Petition - 22,000 signatures
Path graphic
Looking back down the path
 Process of setting up repositories is ok
 Systems works - put things in and get them out
 Copyright was not the unbridgeable crevasse we
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 Achieved regional, national, international support
 OA academic approval at over 80%
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The difficulties
 A good case is not enough
 The way across Copyright Crevasse was too narrow
for authors’ comfort
 The view from Base Camp was hard to shake
– subject basis, quality control, plagiarism
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Reluctance to leave well-trodden paths
The Search party didn’t turn up
The view from here is still too restricted
Authors want sherpas to carry the load
How far to the summit graphic
How far to the summit?
 Need high percentage ingest - how high?
 Need authors to save their critical versions - how do
we achieve this?
 Need clear messages of support and facilities to all
academics - how do we reach them?
 Need sherpas to take the load, or strong leadership
to get authors to take responsibility
 Need clear development paths for everyone to follow
Next stage
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Search teams are forging up the slopes
Mandates will help us along - support them
Assistance is available
Multiplicity of paths
– all going to slightly different destinations
 Where do we want to go?
Development path - ingest
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Research papers - published
Conference papers
Book chapters
eTheses
Research data
Learning and teaching materials
Grey literature
Development path - use
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– integration with library provision
exposure
– research management
publication lists
– research audit
shop-windows
integration with information environment
 Open Access
 Re-use support
– data-mining
– evidence-based work
 Overlay journals
 Citation services
Obstacles graphic
Obstacles & tricky conditions
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Embargoes
Double-charge access becoming embedded
Copyright Crevasse is still unsettling
Loss of focus within repositories
Metadata-only entries cloud the view
Author engagement cf approval
Assistance
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RSP - www.rsp.ac.uk
RoMEO - www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo
JULIET - www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet
OpenDOAR - www.opendoar.org and /search
The Depot - depot.edina.ac.uk
Intute Repository Search - irs.ukoln.ac.uk
BASE - digital.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/index.php
DRIVER - www.driver-support.eu
UKCoRR - (www.ukcorr.org)
Halfway up . . .
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Lengthy climb
But if we had asked how long it would take . . .
Paths do appear unexpectedly
Other social forces also at work
Beginning to see the view
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